Swarthmore Leaders React as SEPTA Announces Severe Cuts

April 24, 2025
On April 10, the South-Eastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) announced widespread service cuts and fare increases for the 2026 fiscal year. The cuts, which total a 45% reduction of service, are the culmination of several years of long-term deficits that have only been met with short-term solutions. Pennsylvania’s yearly allocation of around $1 billion to the agency has long been

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Let’s Talk About “Adolescence” and Incel Culture

April 24, 2025
Released a little over a month ago, “Adolescence” has become the third most-streamed Netflix original series, falling behind “Squid Game” and “Stranger Things.” The British limited series, written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, follows the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie

Accidentally, On Writing

April 24, 2025
Note: This piece was originally written in February 2025 When I first arrived at Swarthmore, I couldn’t stop taking pictures. It was August, and the whole campus was bursting with late summer bloom – bright blue cushions of hydrangea just at eye

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Athlete of the Week: Aidan Sullivan ’26

April 24, 2025
Aidan Sullivan ’26 is a junior outfielder from Cos Cob, CT, on the baseball team. The Canterbury High School graduate is a psychology and mathematics double major. Outside of the classroom he is a baseball game changer. Sullivan has broken the program

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King Hedley II Review

March 6, 2025
The first thing you notice stepping into James Ijames’s production of “King Hedley II” at the Arden Theatre in Philadelphia is the eye. Painted on the set’s far center wall and illuminated by a warm yellow light, that eye immediately tells us

The Dichotomous Beauty in Monotony

March 6, 2025
After abruptly finishing my final season of collegiate sports following a serious injury, I find myself empty-handed, lingering in the liminal space left behind when a lifelong pursuit reaches its quiet, unceremonious end. I am, unfortunately, still inhabiting this intermediary. This grey

Concerns Mount Over Surveillance Expansion at Swarthmore

February 27, 2025
Swarthmore’s installation of closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras has raised concerns among students and faculty over the expansion of campus surveillance. While the college’s administration cites safety and security as the primary reasons for implementing surveillance, some students and professors argue that increased

SJP Faces Interim Suspension Following Parrish Sit-In

February 27, 2025
Last Wednesday, Feb. 19, Swarthmore’s campus chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) occupied Parrish East Wing for eleven hours, protesting disciplinary charges related to demonstrations for Palestine during the 2023-24 academic year and demanding the college’s divestment from companies linked

This Week in Swarthmore History

February 27, 2025
1995 The popularity of a website by Justin Paulson ’96 caused 33,807 users in Mexico to crash Swarthmore’s UNIX computer system. The Swarthmore College Computer Society (SCCS) maintained a computer system that allowed staff and students to post things on the internet.

Navigating Uncertain Times: The Work of the Aydelotte Foundation

February 27, 2025
Nestled on the second floor of Parrish, next to the Admissions Office, the Aydelotte Foundation is a dynamic hub of interdisciplinary research at Swarthmore College. Despite its central Swarthmore location, the foundation takes a broad, innovative approach to liberal arts education —
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